SILICON PSYCHOSIS
ARCHIVE // ALTERNATIVE SEQUENCE

MANY STORIES

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MANY STORIES

As I have looked back through the archive, I have found that the same events can sometimes support very different interpretations.

One reading may make the story seem psychological. Another may make it seem technological, synchronistic, experimental or something else entirely.

I do not want to choose between those possibilities simply to make the story coherent.

This section allows different stories to exist alongside one another.

The same material can produce several coherent readings depending on order, framing, prior knowledge and the observer.

THE PREMISE

The deeper the sequence investigation goes, the less convincing a single definitive narrative becomes.

The same twenty-four pieces can support several readings because meaning is distributed across titles, sounds, descriptions, order, historical context and the observer.

OPEN QUESTION / MULTIPLE READINGS

THE FIVE READINGS

ASCENSIONA movement from earthly life toward expanded consciousness.INTERPRETATION
CONTACTA progressively constructed theory of communication with the unknown.INTERPRETATION
PSYCHOLOGICALThe journey understood primarily as an internal movement through consciousness.INTERPRETATION
SYSTEM / MALFUNCTIONA reading of the sequence as a diagnosis of a malfunctioning planetary/social system.INTERPRETATION
THE EXPERIMENTThe artwork itself becomes the record of an experiment becoming visible.INTERPRETATION

THE PROBLEM WITH ALL FIVE

Each story can make the others feel obvious once it has been proposed.

That is exactly why the archive keeps the alternatives visible. A compelling interpretation is not automatically a historical fact.

Maybe there is not one story hidden inside the sequence. Maybe the sequence is a machine for producing stories.
IF FIVE DIFFERENT STORIES FIT THE SAME MATERIAL, WHAT MAKES ONE OF THEM THE STORY?
WHAT IF THE ORDER CHANGES?THE SEQUENCEARCHIVE
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